A Review of Near Field Authentication for Smart Devices

Abstract

NFC (Near Field Communication) chip has enabled smart devices available in the market to exchange information quickly between two devices, but in the process compromising on the security front, this lacking feature thereby inhibits the use of NFC. NFA (Near Field Authentication) poses as an alternative to NFC. NFA aims to fulfil the purpose of NFC for all smart devices without using NFC chips. Currently there seems to be no application available in the market that uses NFA. We as a team are motivated to build an Android application. We propose a system that uses human finger- movement to authenticate a connection between two devices in proximity of each other.